Coin-operated device.



Patented Nov. 21, I899. J. F. BLAKE.

COIN UPEBATED DEVICE.

(Application filed Apr. 20, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FEGGETTER BLAKE, OF. NElV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

COIN-OPERATED DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,700, dated November 21, 1899.

Application filed April 20, 1899. Serial No. 713,775. (No model? To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN FEGGE'ITER BLAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Coin- Operated Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin-operated devices or slot-machines, so called, and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device sectioned along 1; r, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a section along to w, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section along 5cm, Fig.2. Fig. 4 is a section alongyy, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section along a 2, Fig. 4.

In the drawings is shown a case or housing 1 of suitable shape and material, and 2 is a shaft. The handle or lever 3 when rocked or swung back and forth will actuate the arm 4, to which at 5 is pivoted or connected pawl 6, adapted to engage ratchet 7. The pawl 6, moved back and forth, rotates the ratchet in one direction or gives a step-by-step rotation to such ratchet. The ratchet 7has the teeth aand what may be called a gap or tooth less space, the distance from tooth a to tooth a being larger than the space between successive teeth, or, say, equal to the space occupied by two ratchet-teeth. If a filler, such as a coin 8, is held in position to fill this gap or to form a tooth in the space a 0. the pawl 6, taking hold of the coin asof a tooth a, will keep on rotating the ratchet or disk 7. If no coin is passed in, the gap at a being empty, the pawl 6, playing idly back and forth in this gap, will leave the ratchet at rest.

The case 1 is shown with a slot or mouth 9, at which the coin can be inserted to pass along the guide or chute 10, having a yielding portion 11, for a purpose to be presently explained. From the chute the coin normally will slide or pass to the teeth a; but the ratchet 7 has a rim 12 for holding the coin in the chute or away from the toothed portion'a of ratchet 7. vSuch rim, however, has a slot or coin-holding portion 14, Fig. 5",which when opposite the coin in the chute receives such coin, so that the latter will pass or form a device or stereopticon.

temporary tooth in the gap at a A suitable pocket or stop 15 at the slot or coin-holding portion 14 of the ratchet prevents the coin dropping to the inner or center part of rim 12; but before the ratchet has completed a revolution thecoin drops away from the ratchet and into the case 1 or into asuitable rece'ptacle. To start a second revolution ofthe ratchet, a second coin will thus have to be put in the slot 9. This rim 12, it is noticed, holds a coin in the chute away from the ratchet until the slot 14 registers with the coin in the chute. Should, therefore, the ratchet have the slot 14 away from the chute when such coin is introduced, such coin will remain in the chute until the pawl 6 or the ratchet 7 has moved the slot or receiving portion 14 to the chute. The coin then entering the gap ct a to form a temporary tooth enables the pawl 6 to continue rotating the ratchet.

Should it occur that a coin enters only partly into slot 14, so as to still contact with or project toward the chute while being propelled by pawl 6, the yielding chute portion 11 by swinging or giving way will avoid breakage or allow the coin to pass on or rotate with the ratchet. This yielding chute portion while adapted-to yield for the passage of a coin projecting laterally from or only partly received in the ratchet is normally in line or level with the main chute portion or body 10. The yielding portion can be formed in any suitable way. A spring-trap or spring-hinge support has been found suitable for this yielding portion 11.

The ratchet 7 is shown with bars or rods 16, supported by said ratchet and by disk 17. This drum or carrier 7 16 17 can be made to serve various purposes-as, for example, to carry pictures or faces 18 of an advertising Of course this actuating-disk 7 is not limited in its application to any particular apparatus, but can be applied wherever serviceable.

If the handle 3 causes the shaft 2 to oscillate or rock, then the drum 7 16 17 must be mounted loosely on the shaft, so as not to turn backward therewith, or the shaft 2 could be made in two separate or independent sections, one for the handle and one for the drum, so that the handle and drum, with their respective shaft sections or pieces, are capa ble of=1notion orrotation independent ofofne another. A'bralge or frictionapplian'cj, such as a spring 19, can be made to prevent-excessive or retrograde rotation or movement of I the ratchet. Suitable stops or studs 20 can be made to, properly-limit the throw, of lever 3. The casing 1 may have one or more'sig'ht-* openings or be otherwise adapted to its intended use.

would make a perpetually-operative device! What I claim asnew, and desire to secure r a by Letters Patent; is-- V I 1. A pawl and a ratchet having'a gap or "toothless space and a slot or coin holding por,- tion adapted-Ito hold a-coin inpositionto fill l the gap or form a tooth .substantially as described.

' 2 A pawland a ratchet having a gapfor,

toothless-space, a'slot or coin holding portion and a rim'for holding the coinaway from the ratchet or teeth substantially as described.

3. A pawl and a ratchet having a gapor If-a coin or; filler 8 should be permanently secured in coin-ho1der.14,*it

2 a "ea-zeta toothless space, anda slot or coin-holdin g portion, combined'with a chute having s, portion normally in line or level with the main chute portion and made to yield forthe passage of a coin projecting from the ratchet toward the chute substantiallyasdescribed. v

4. I A pawl and-a" ratchet'having a gap or toothless space, a coin-holding portion, and ya chuteysaid ratchet being provided with a rim made to hold a coinin stantiallyas described. Y a t 5. A pawl and a ratchet havi-ng a gap or toothless space, a coin-holding portion,'and a brake orvfrict-ion appliance for the ratchet substantiallyas described.

- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing the chute, subwitnesses. V i

' JOHN FEGGETTER" BLAKE.

Witnesses: Y I

GEORGE E. 'Co oL'EY,' I 7 CHARLES F. BOLLMANN. 

